B-29 Superfortress "Hog Wild" Flight over North Korea, Search for North Korea's
Nuclear Weapons
Program. The true story of the DPRK North Korean Atomic Bomb Program which
started in WW2.

By Bill Streifer and Irek Sabitov. History of North Korea's Atomic Bomb Program and the DPRK Nuclear
Weapons Program. Plus, the history of flights to support our soldiers, POW's
in North Korea. North Koreas Atomic Bomb is real and it has been
started by the research from the Japanese Government in World War 2. Flight of
the B-29 Superfortress which was shot down over Konan in 1945.

From the Webmaster: As the research into
Japan's Nuclear Weapons goes on, it turns out that the research has moved into
becoming the long history of North Koreas Nuclear Weapons program.
Bill Streifer is a master researcher who spends every day, all day, doing
research on this historic North Korean (DPRK) Nuclear Weapons program which
until now was thought to have never existed until a few years ago.
However, it turns out that Nuclear Weapons have been under development, in North
Korea, since the late 1930's. Bill Streifer has made tremendous
discoveries, Now including a five thousand word question and answer paper from a
North Korean defector, along with maps that have never been revealed before.
I have spoken with Bill on an almost daily basis since 2008 and he not only
researches his work, but he gets official documents through the freedom of
information act from agencies like the OSS. Bill is working directly with
Irek Sabitov from Ufa Russia in the production of his new book, the Flight of
the Hog Wild. Bill has about four hundred consultants that have
contributed to his research efforts. Truly Amazing. C. Jeff Dyrek,
Webmaster.

On August 29, 1945, an American B-29 was forced down by Soviet
fighters over northern Korea. The thirteen-man crew survived. They
were then interned at the Konan POW camp in Hungnam, (North) Korea
for 18 days.

While they were there, they met Soviet pilots and officers,
as well as British, Australian and at least one Canadian POW -
some of which are still alive. The first chapter of the book
The Flight
of the Hog Wild, co-written by Irek Sabitov (a Russian
journalist) and Bill Streifer (an American researcher), is a
"featured article" on
Gary Powers, Jr's website
www.ColdWarTimes.com

I am on a
mission to interview (or videotape) the Americans, Russians,
Australian, British, and Canadians who were at the Konan POW
camp when the prisoners and the B-29 crew returned home in
mid-September 1945. If you would like to take part in this
project, get back to me at your earliest convenience.

6-27-2009

Nearly sixty-five years ago, the Chicago
Daily Tribune ran a front-page story on a 19-year-old
Chicagoan name Arthur Strilky. He shared his incredible
story with Arthur Veysey, a Tribune foreign correspondent,
about a mission over
North Korea , that has all but faded from history. On
August 29, 1945 , a B-29 “Superfortress,” called the “Hog
Wild,” was sent on a “mercy
mission” to drop food and medical supplies to the
Konan POW Camp in the port city, now known as Hungnam . When
they arrived, and for reasons still unknown, the bomber was
shot down by Russian Yak fighters, forcing the plane to
crash-land on a small Soviet airfield. The crew then spent
the next eighteen days interned at the POW camp along with
approximated 350 British and
Australian
prisoners of war.

One of the plane’s engines burst
into flames which forced the B-29’s commander, Lieut. Joseph
Queen, to order six of the crew to bail out into the cold
and turbulent Sea of Japan, while seven others braced for
impact. Although some of the crew suffered from
hypothermia
and shock, miraculously, none of the crew was killed.

Unbeknownst to the American
government or the Army Air Corps, the Hog Wild had crash
landed in the vicinity of a chemical factory in Hungnam ,
and a uranium mine in nearby Hamhung, both operated by the
Japanese. Today, North Korea is suspected of stockpiling
chemical weapons and has recently admitted they are
processing uranium for their atomic weapons program. Just
last month, North Korea detonated a
nuclear weapon
which Russian scientists estimate was “about equal to the
U.S. atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki in Japan during World War
II.”

Meanwhile, Arthur Strilky (now
83), the sole surviving member of the Hog Wild crew, enjoys
driving his sports car around town, and racing sailboats for
the Columbia
Yacht Club in
Chicago.

Bill
Streifer is a researcher and author on topics including
Japan’s nuclear weapons program during WWII and U.S.
intelligence. He is currently co-authoring a book with Irek
Sabitov, a Russian journalist, concerning events surrounding
the downing of a B-29 bomber by Soviet fighters shortly
after the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII. The book is
entitled "The
Flight of the Hog Wild.

Japan's First Atomic Bomb was exploded two days after Hiroshima.
This is where North Koreas Atomic Bomb program started. This is the ture story of
the DPRK Nuclear Weapons Program, the North Korean Atomic Weapons Program and
Very Possibly the start of the Russian Nuclear Atomic Bomb Production programs.

“The more I read of your research, the stranger the
whole affair becomes. Some of your work is bringing back
memories and questions I had at the time but dismissed as
contemporary events, overwhelmed my attention”

Tech Sgt. Arthur Strilky

Hog Wild’s Radio Operator

This a photo of the Hog Wild and its original crew, although (suspiciously) at least four of the regular crewman were replaced by squadron level officers for this mission. Although the airplane commander, pilot, navigator, Arthur Strilky, and others are in the photo... its not the crew of the 13 that were shot down by the Soviets.

On
August 29, 1945 , on the very day that General Douglas
MacArthur became Supreme Commander of Allied Forces after
the Japanese had surrendered, and coincidently on the day
known by Koreans as a “day of national shame,” the U.S. sent
a B-29 called the Hog Wild on a mission to Konan in
northern Korea , a city now known as Hungnam .

Under
the guise of a “mercy mission” to a former Japanese POW
camp, now under the control of the Soviet Union , three
B-29s with supplies for 600 men were sent to the North
Korean camp
believed to house only 156 British and Australian prisoners.

It is
becoming apparent that the true mission of the third B-29 to
arrive at Konan, Korea that day was not as it appeared or had
pretended to be. In actuality, the Hog Wild was on a
photo recon mission over an area of Korea which the American
military had never seen before

The
Airplane Commander, Lieut. Joseph Queen, was under strict
orders to “forget dropping supplies and return to Iwo Jima
if the plane encountered trouble.” As he was soon to
discover, “trouble” was an understatement.

While
the Hog Wild suspiciously circled over the Korean POW camp
once too many times, four Russian Yak fighters were sent up
to force the B-29 to land. According to a Soviet report, one
of the Russian pilots, “on his own initiative” began firing
on the B-29, causing engine #1 to burn fiercely. The B-29
engine, made partly of light-weight magnesium, could not be
extinguished by the automatic fire-extinguishing system on
board and, despite their best efforts, a ferocious fire
continued to burn out of control.

Seven
members of the crew were instructed to remain in the plane
as it crash landed - badly damaged and afire - on a Russian
airfield in nearby HamHung, after six others had bailed out
into the cold, Sea of Japan , also known as Korea ’s East
Sea . Despite extensive damage and an engine on fire, 1st
Lieut. Joseph Queen managed to land the B-29 safely, and,
despite a published report to the contrary, not a single
crewman died.

The Hog Wild, built in June 1945, was a late-model
“Superfortress,” equipped with the most sophisticated radar
system available, and a portable, large-format,
high-precision “aerial reconnaissance” K-20 camera which the
Soviets had never acquired through lend-lease.

The true
mission of the Hog Wild (with an irregular crew,
including four, squadron-level officers) may never be
discovered, however, in the opinion of Lieut. Col. Earl J.
McGill (USAF Ret.), the Hog Wild was a “spook,” a spy
plane whose mission was known by a select few. If
interrogated, the crew would repeat their “mercy mission”
cover story, and any accusation of spying or
photoreconnaissance would be denied.

According to Professor Cumings of the University of Chicago
, a Korean history expert, spy missions over North Korea
prior to the Korean War were not uncommon. The Hog Wild
may simply have been one of the earliest. In any event, the
members of the Hog Wild crew were the only American
military personnel to have set foot in the area for decades,

In
late-August 1945, there had been no written agreement
between the United States and the Soviet Union to divide
Korea into two halves, only an understanding between the
parties. General MacArthur’s General Order #1 of August 15,
1945 unilaterally decreed that the Soviets would control the
north half of the Korean peninsula above the 38th parallel,
and the United States would control the southern half. “The
Soviets never publicly agreed to it, never signed anything…
they just agreed to it de facto.” In early August, a Soviet
communiqu prohibited firing on American aircraft, but by
late August, that ban had been lifted.

So
technically, an invasion of Soviet airspace by the Hog
Wild on August 29, 1945 was not a violation of any
agreement since no agreement existed. Rather, it was General
MacArthur asserting his authority as Supreme Commander.

On Sept.
4, 1945 , MacArthur sent a cable to the Soviet High Command
expressing, in no uncertain terms, his outrage at the Soviet
downing of an American plane. If MacArthur had not done so,
this incident may very well have faded into history, and if
the Soviets had not replied immediately with an apology, the
incident may have become into an international incident.
MacArthur’s cable (which we now know contained a number of
errors) read as follows,

“On August 28 at Kanko (HamHung),
Korea , a United States B-29 of the 75BW, while engaged in
dropping supplies to prisoner of war camps at Chosen Branch:
30 deg 53 min N 127 deg 38 min E was shot down by Russian
fighters. The American plane was plainly market and its
mission could not fail to have been identified as purely
benevolent. The circumstances of the case cause me the
gravest anxiety and I request that immediate and decisive
steps be taken to prevent a reoccurrence of so deplorable an
incident. A prompt reply is requested pending which the much
needed dropping of supplies to prisoners of war in this area
had been stopped.”

On September 16, Supreme Headquarters (headed by
MacArthur) announced that the Soviets had “officially
apologized” for the downing of the Hog Wild.

Once the
Hog Wild crew had satisfactorily explained the
situation to Soviet commanders, they were permitted to roam
freely within the former-Japanese POW camp and throughout
the surrounding city. They met Russian pilots and officers,
Korean doctors and a professor, as well as British and
Australian POWs, many of whom they befriended. This
permitted them to make discoveries which, until now, have
remained buried in secret Army documents for over sixty
years.

Through
a discussion with a Korean professor - a student of Albert
Einstein -- they discovered why North Koreans had accepted
Communism so readily and why the plan to divide Korea into
North and South would not work, and would inevitably lead to
a “civil war.”

They
discovered that Soviet fighters were made of wood, and that
British POWs were forced to manufacture the “precursor” of
chemical weapons under inhumane conditions, the manufacture
of which some believe are still being carried out today in
North Korea.

Despite
theB-29’s sophisticated radar system and a crew capable of
operating it, the Russians bought the American version of
the story that they were simply unable to locate a POW camp
due to bad weather and deficient maps. Once high-ranking
Soviet officers and flight engineers, who refused to believe
that the B-29 had been shot down, accepted the Hog Wild’s
“cover story” of a POW mission gone bad, the crew were
permitted to return to their plane and radio for assistance.

One
explanation, is that Russian commanders naively accepted
Queen’s explanation, and permitted the thirteen-man crew to
roam freely about, eventually becoming friends of sort,
sharing food, drink, dance and song. At one point, they were
offered free passage home through the Soviet Union , which
they graciously declined after being forewarned by a Russian
pilot that by doing so they may be placing their lives in
jeopardy.

A more
plausible explanation is that the Russians suspected the
true mission of the Hog Wild, but when General MacArthur
sent the cable to the Soviet High Command warning them that
their actions were unacceptable, the Russians were in a
bind. Not returning the crew could have resulted in an
international “Cold War” incident like the U-2
spy plane
downing over the Soviet Union some fifteen years later.

Still,
the similarities between the New York Times reporting of the
Hog Wild (1945) and Gary Powers’ U-2 (1960) incidents
are intriguing. With respect to the U-2 incident, the Times
wrote, “Soviet Downs American Plane; U.S. Says it was
Weather Craft” And in 1945, the Times wrote, “Four Russian
fighter planes shot down an American B-29 which was on a
mercy mission…”

According to David Snell, a future LIFE Magazine
investigative reporter, the Russians had secretly occupied a
nearby Japanese nuclear facility, kidnapped and tortured six
nuclear scientists inside, and returned the scientists to
Moscow . By befriending the crew, retrieving the K-20 camera
on board (and the photos that may have been taken), and
permitting the safe return of the Hog Wild crew into
American hands, perhaps the Russians mistakenly believed
that the incident might quickly go away, and be forgotten.

But now, for the first time,
suspicions of nuclear and chemical weapons facilities in
North Korea , as far back as 1945, can now be supported.
One day, perhaps, the true identity of the Japanese
“counter-intelligence” officer Snell interviewed, the names
of the six, Japanese nuclear scientists supposedly captured
and tortured by the Russians, and the full text of the
interview by Cecil Nist (head of G-2 Army Intelligence, XXIV
Corps) of the Hog Wild crew may be revealed.

By the
end of WWII, the Americans had the atomic bomb and a plane
capable of delivering it to its target, and the Soviets had
neither. Stalin had seen, with his own eyes, how the
Americans had used B-29s to drop atomic bombs with great
success on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , just a few weeks
earlier.

According to Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Premier Nikita
Khrushchev, after the success of the B-29 called the Enola
Gay, Stalin’s interest in acquiring an American strategic
bomber was renewed. Stalin’s written order, dated June 1945,
confirms this. The United States possessed the B-29
“Superfortress,” the greatest bomber in history, and yet was
quite unwilling to share it with the Soviet Union .

What
began as a scholarly analysis of a military confrontation
between the United States and the Soviet Union on August 29,
1945 in northern Korea during peacetime has evolved, quite
unintentionally and unexpectedly, into significantly more.
This is a unique examination of American-Soviet relations,
Japanese-Korean relations, Stalin’s attempt to acquire
Japanese nuclear and chemical weapons technology, as well as
a Soviet nuclear delivery system. And - for the first time -
a look at the infancy of North Korea’s chemical and nuclear
weapons programs, as seen through the eyes of thirteen
American airmen and three British POWs. It may also shed new
light on one or more top-secret missions during the Korean
War.

It is
not surprising to what extent the U.S. Army and Air Force
has gone to bury this incident in history. When Eugene
Harwood, the Hog Wild’s navigator, was asked during an
unaired interview by Iowa Public Television, if he had been
a POW himself, he responded “in a manner of speaking.” When
I asked the same question of Arthur Strilky, the Hog
Wild’s radio operator, I received a similar response
with the additional caveat, “I never knew why the Russians
shot us down.” Perhaps the POW camp where Queen, Harwood,
Strilky and the others were interned for eighteen days was
intentionally misidentified by the Army Air Corps as being,
not in extreme North Korea but rather, in South Korea - near
Seoul .

When the
Air Force was asked what had become of the plane, they
responded, “It appears that the aircraft was lost as missing
after a collision on 19 Sept 1945 ,” when in fact there had
never been a collision. In reality, the Hog Wild and
its top-secret components were examined by a Soviet B-29
expert, on the ground in Korea . Their intention was to use
the information they acquired to created the Soviet version
of the B-29 called the Tupolev Tu-4, through a process
called “reverse engineering.”

While
most experts believe that the process had begun in 1944 when
the Russians acquired the Ramp Tramp and other B-29s, the
reality is that all B-29s acquired by the Soviets had been
fired upon, and serious development of the Tu-4, according
to a Soviet publication, didn’t begin until early 1946 -
long after the downing of the Hog Wild.

Although
Army Air Corps protocol requires that a Missing Air Crew
Report (MACR) be filed after two days, none was filed for
the Hog Wild, perhaps believing that would end an
inquiry into the plane’s fate. But the military had failed
to destroy the Hog Wild crew’s detailed account of
the incident, the press reporting of an Air Force news
briefing, and other documents. Perhaps now they will wish
they had done so.

And for those who find a spy
mission during the summer of 1945 unlikely - a mission
which has remained a tightly-held secret for so long - a
possible explanation is provided
by Jay T. Young in the “afterword” of Arthur Boyd’s book,
Operation Broken Reed. “Since
North Korea remains a potential adversary of the United
States, and one with a growing inventory of missile-delivery
systems, large stocks of chemical and possibly biological
weapons, and perhaps a small nuclear arsenal, Washington may
still be reluctant to release details about how much and
what kind of intelligence it obtained on North Korea and its
Chinese and Soviet allies in the past.” And according to
Lieut. Col. Boyd, the Army had used the “fake” downing of a
B-29 and crew to infiltrate North Korea
during the Korean War.

This is a
rare photo of the Konan POW camp, where
the American B-29 crew was interned for 18 days.
(They were, most likely, the first Americans to
ever set foot in (North) Korea until the
Korean War (1950). The picture was taken
in Sept. 1945 (when the B-29 crew was there!).
The inset (from a Sept. 1945 newspaper article)
is of Arthur Strilky, the Hog Wilds radio
operator. Strilky (then 19) is now 83. He is the
last surviving crew member of the Hog Wilds
final mission. I interviewed him in depth for
the book. Can you believe he drives a sports car
and races sailboats at 83??

Bill Streifer is currently writing a biography of the
investigative reporter David Snell, entitled Plausible
Deniability. Born in northern Louisiana , Snell was drafted two
weeks prior to V-J Day, assigned to the Criminal Investigation
Detachment (CID) of the XXIV Corps, and stationed in Korea . He
began his career as a reporter for a small Louisiana newspaper. He
later wrote for the Atlanta Constitution, the New York
World-Telegram & Sun, and eventually became a Senior Editor for LIFE
Magazine during the heart of the Cold War. On Oct. 3, 1947 , David
Snell wrote the first newspaper account of the downing of the Hog
Wild to spark national attention.

In the Magazine on the left, Bill Streifer
was one of the article writers as he has done in a number of other
magazines.

Irek Darvishevich Sabitov (Ирек Сабитов) is a resident of
Ufa , Bashkiria , South Urals , Russia . Mr. Sabitov is an editor of
the Bashkir Regional Supplement of Trud-7, one of Russia ’s
largest-circulation weekly Russian newspapers. His father, Lieut.
Colonel Darvish Sabitov, took part in commanding an anti-aircraft
artillery section in 1944-45 during WWII.

Professional References for the Book

Sergei Khrushchev ,Nikita
Khrushchevs son

Igor D. Rostov , a Russian oceanographer

Staff Sgt. Arthur Strilky ,a B-29 radio operator, and
the last surviving member of the Hog Wild crew

Bruce Cumings , a Korean history scholar from the
University of ChicagoChris Gourley, a producer from
Iowa Public Television that provided me with the
"un-aired" interview of the Hog Wilds navigator.

Robert K. Wilcox, the author of Japans Secret War
(their atomic
bomb program)

Dixie Oliver Snell, the widow of David Snell (who
wrote the first newspaper article to spark national
attention in the Hog Wild in 1946)

Marvin Makinen, arrested and imprisoned in the
Soviet Union on charges of espionage

Frederick Pryor, arrested and imprisoned in
East Germany on charges of espionage

Irek Sabitov, my Russian co-author, and the editor of
a Russian weekly newspaper

From the Webmaster: I told Bill that the
B-29 would never be used for a recon aircraft because it was so huge and
that the fighters couldeasily catch it. But, I have spoken to a B-29 Crew Chief who said that
one of the planes that he was working on was specifically set up for recon missions in the Pacific. The difference
is that in the European Theater, everything in the war was much closer, but in the Pacific Theater, all of he targets were really far
away. Also, I was thinking about the size of the B-29, butit was also a very advanced aircraft with light years of technology above
the
B-24 Liberator
and
B-17 Flying Fortress making the B-29 Superfortressmuch faster and higher flying. I believe that the speed of the
B-29 Superfortress
was about 375 mph and it could easily cruise above35,000 feet. Many of the
Japanese Zeros
couldnt even fly that high and with any of the fighters of its time, they
werent muchfaster. By the time they scrambled the fighters and tried to climb to
catch the B-29, the Superfortress was long gone and out of Sight. So this plane was indeed used in the recon missions.

The question is who negotiated the release of the prisoners in the
Konan Prison Camp.The General was a big man with a revolver with a ivory white handle.
Was the manGeneral George Patton who may have come all the way from Europe, or was it
GeneralMacArthur who also wore a revolver with a white handle. Whoever it
was, he had a lot of influence on the situation. The research is still continuing by
Bill and Irek, Authors of this book.

This is testimony by a North Korean defector to the U.S. Senate in
1997. It mentions the"February
8" Vinalon Factory in Hamhung (see below).
I have attached a photograph of the
"February 8" Vinalon Factory in Hamhung from
a 1973 North Korean postcard that I purchased from a german (I
think) on ebay.

By the way, "mustard
gas" (the stuff I believe the Allied POWs were forced
to manufacture in the carbide furnaces near Hungnam) is a "blister
gas" (see below).

Now things are getting interesting
(and dangerous?)

Bill

PREPARED STATEMENT OFJU-HWAL CHOIFORMER OFFICIALMINISTRY OF THE PEOPLES ARMY
NORTH KOREA
NORTH KOREAN MISSILE PROLIFERATION HEARINGbefore theSUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL SECURITY,PROLIFERATION, AND FEDERAL SERVICESof theCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRSUNITED STATES SENATEOCTOBER 21 1997

I am Choi Ju-hwal, I served in the Ministry of
Peoples Army
from 1968 to 1995. I defected from m y post as Colonel and Chief
of joint venture section of Yung-Seong Trading Company under the
Ministry of Peoples Army. I would like to describe North
Korean weapons of mass
destruction.

North Korea is currently producing various kinds of poison
gas including nerve gas, blister
gas, among others. These factories include
the Kangye Chemical Factory in Jangang Province, the Sakju
Chemical Factory in North Pyongan Province, the "February 8"
Vinalon Factory in Hamhung,
North Hamgyong Province, the Ilyong Branch of the
Sunchon Vinalon Factory in South Pyongan Province, the Factory No.
297 in Pyongwon, South Pyongan Province. There are other chemical
factories in Bongung, Hamhung City, South Hamgyong Province, Hyesan City
Yanggang Province, and Kangye City, Jagang Province.

The story of the "Hog Wild," a B-29 that was shot down by Soviet
fighters over northern Korea on August 29, 1945, appeared in the Russian
newspaper Arguments of the Week, August 12-18, 2010.
The authors were Irek Sabitov, a Russian journalist, and Bill Streifer.
By the way, according to Gallup Media, the weekly circulation of
Arguments of the Week is 587,000 (including Moscow). Ive attached the
newspaper cover as well as two of the inside pages. I hope you can all
read Russian. If not, Im sorry. I guess youll have to wait for the
American version. Unlike the Russian version of the story, the American
version will emphasize the failure of U.S. intelligence to correctly
determine the progress that Japan and the Soviet Union had made toward
the development of the atomic bomb during WWII and shortly afterward.
And how the Hog Wild had stumbled into an area where the Japanese were
doing atomic work, and where the Soviets later carried on that same work
until the Korean War began.
Bill Streifer

Mine in Hwanghae Province North Korea

From Left to Right,
this is basically what these signs say

Left Side

Kimjungil -
We better be safe while we are working
for the country so here cant be any
accidents

Wait!

Work Safe

Right Side

Today, did
you guys finish what youve planned?

Do you guys work hard enough to be
a Hero?

Lets fight against all the
surroundings and try to be a creator of
the world

Factory in Hamhung North Korea

Both a B-29 Pilot and an SR-71 Pilot. Look for the Video,
Frozen in Time to see this pilot in a special documentary.

Part of the Transcript from an Iowa Public
Television interview with the Radio Operator of the Hog Wild,
Eugene Harwood.

03:08:52:24 [00:04] Harwood,
H-a-r-w-o-o-d.

03:08:56:14

03:08:56:14 [00:04] What was your
position on the plane?

03:09:00:00 [00:04] I was a navigator.

03:09:03:29 [00:29] So to speak I knew
just where we were at and what altitude to fly at and once we
got within 500 miles of
Japan I
told the crew that we're going to altitude, climbing altitude
and I woke up the bombardier.

03:09:40:06 [00:04] Tell me about one of
your missions.

03:09:43:22

03:09:43:22 [00:50] One of our missions
was a mission to
North Korea to drop the supplies on a British POW camp,
Japanese. The British were confined there, they all got
captured in Singapore so we had ten thousand pounds of supplies
for them and we got over there to the camp and we circled and
didn't see it. So, we went again and we saw four
fighter planes and knew they weren't Japanese, we knew
they were Russians.

03:10:33:07 [00:41] So, the pilot asked
me if we were heading back to Iwo Jima and I gave him a heading
and we headed out and we got about 25 miles out and two
planes behind us just followed us. They were just breaking the
airplane with canon fire and both engines, I could see both
engines, one and two, I was looking out that little window there
and both of them were on fire as far back as we could see.

03:11:14:03 [00:24] They finally told us
to bail out, we were only at 600 feet and we aren't supposed to
bail out but I was the first one out. Six of us bailed out and
the others crash landed on shore. We spent about a month in the
camp living there until they came up after us.

03:11:38:13 [00:01] So, you were
actually a POW?

03:11:39:27 [00:04] Yeah, so to speak.

03:11:43:27 [00:03] Was that your first
mission?

03:11:47:01 [00:03] No, that was 13th.

03:11:50:01 [00:05] So, you actually,
you didn't go down with the plane but you had to bail out?

03:11:54:16 [00:40] Yeah, we were just
lucky as hell to get out. There's some Sampan's, Sampan fishing
boats going back into shore because it was real stormy and they
were going that way and picked up all of us. It was pretty
hairy and we wouldn't have last another hour. The water
up there is awful cold, it's just south of ???, Siberia and that
water is cold.

03:12:42:03 [00:18] When you saw the
plane sitting here what did you think?

03:12:59:20 [00:39] I'm just glad I
don't have to go back up in it. I enjoyed it dearly but I tell
you, we lost ten percent of our crew members in training
in Florida. We had three crews of officers upstairs and three
crews down and we left and there was only one left alive
upstairs and two crews downstairs, the rest of them were
dead, just in training. So, we were glad to get out of there and
then we went overseas and felt better about it.

03:13:38:29 [00:05] Seeing the plane
like this, does it bring back a lot of good memories? Bad
memories?

03:13:44:00 [00:17] Yeah, good and bad.
I've got a lot of memories of it. Our airplane was hog wild,
that was the name of it and it was wild alright.

03:14:01:00 [00:03] The name of your
airplane was Hog Wild?

03:14:04:00 [00:02] Yeah.

03:14:05:16 [00:01] That was the one
that got shot down?

03:14:07:00 [00:01] Yeah.

03:14:08:00 [00:02] After you got shot
down did you get sent home?

03:14:10:00 [01:22] No, we stayed in
this POW camp for a month or so and then they flew a C-47 came
up and picked us up and took us down to
Seoul, Korea
and every other Japanese was allowed to keep a firearm because
they were afraid the Koreans would kill them. But every other
one, when we landed at Kaijou airport at
Seoul they
lined up about 25 fighters there, they had the propeller, they
had to take the propellers off an then we went in and they
treated us like royalty. We went into this hotel and it was
general officers only and they interrogated, we were in there
for two days and then we went back over to Japan and we went
back over to Kawasaki and got bombed out and we landed there on
Japanese...

Bob Neymeyer at the Grout museum in
Waterloo organized the B-29 fly in and would probably have an
address for all of the veterans that were in attendance at the
event. He may have also done his own interview with Eugene. I
believe the Waterloo paper did at least one story on the B-29
crews.

Bill is co-authoring a paper and might be
able to give you more information. If you are interested I can
give you his contact information.

VJ day as you know was August 14, 1945 and I was
aboard ship on this day heading back to the States. The
Captain of the ship announced the
Japanese surrender
over the ships intercom system. We were not surprised
because we were told victory was only a few day away
when we were being sent home. We were still uneasy
during our trip home because we did not believe all the
Japanese submarines that were out looking for us had
received their surrender orders yet. The Captain also
told us that he had his orders to prepare for the
invasion of Japan but the orders were suddenly put on
hold until he was ordered to leave Okinawa and return to
the States.

We were
extremely happy with this announcement because none of us felt we
would survive the invasion. We were thankful for those atomic bombs
that ended the bloodshed. Yes, it's reported that 180 thousand
Japanese civilians died as a result of dropping the bombs but the
War Department also reports that 200 thousand civilians and soldiers
died in the three month battle at Okinawa and I have no problem with
those figures. Because of my experience fighting at Okinawa I ask
only that people think how many of us, and how many Japanese
civilians would have died during the invasion of Japan where the
Japanese people [civilians and military] were willing to die
defending their homeland. The only people I here condemning America
for dropping the bombs are the Japanese and those Americans who were
not fighting to defend our home front and our way of life, but who
today [both Americans & Japanese] are able to enjoy their freedom to
condemn us without mentioning the facts about what could have been.
Click belowBob

JUST THINK HOW THIS YOUNG LADY FELT WHEN SHE DISCOVERED
THE VIDEO HER FATHER SHOT
Great video of a Spontaneous Victory Parade in Honolulu in 1945.
Take a look at this video-absolutely fabulous! Notice the cars and
jeeps, youth. The guys in khaki or gray shirts and black ties are
Navy officers or chiefs. The rest are Army or Marine. How young they
all were to do what they did. This guy really captured a moment in
history! (You can listen to Jimmy Durante singing "I'll be Seeing
You" in the background, too) This is a super video of a time past -
we need to remember and be THANKFUL. Check out the color fidelity.
It's not bad for 1945. Nothing will ever compare with Kodachrome
film.

65 Years Ago my Dad shot this film along Kalakaua Ave. in Waikiki capturing spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender.

The Auction for this transcript
was held on January 14, 2010

Jeff,

Here's a photo of Ufa in 1910 and Irek Sabitov (recently).

Also, the cover of the
Gary Powers U-2 Trial transcript that I own, which was taken from the
trash of a Soviet military library in the early 1970's by Irek's father, and
passed to his son, Irek, before he died. The transcript
was prepared for publication and printed August
17-19, 1962, just days after the trial ended. All American editions, such as
the book "The Trial of the
U2,"
were derived from the version I own.

TRANSLATION:

The
legal proceedings on the criminal case of an American pilot-spy
Francis G. Powers

Bill

Actual Cover of the transcripts from the Gary Francis
Powers Trial in Russia.

During WWII, radio receivers
and silk maps were hidden inside of cribbage boards, playing cards and
baseballs, and then delivered by the Red Cross (American Red Cross or
the ICRC) into German POW camps. Does anyone know the frequency which
the radio receivers operated, and if the messages were sent in code, how
did the POWs know how decode the messages? For that matter, how did the
POWs know there were items secretly hidden in these games of chance
without breaking them open? And why would they break them open unless
they knew what was inside in advance? Also, does anyone know if a
similar scheme was employed in Japanese POW camps? If anyone knows
about this, please send a letter to the webmaster below. Thank
you, C. Jeff Dyrek.

Do these NEW qualifications (Public Law 101-189 s.487
, enacted on November 29, 1989) for the POW Medal apply to the crew of
the Hog Wild?
Bill is currently working on getting the POWs from the B-29 Hog Wild a
POW service medal. Even though they were prisoners, they were held
just after WW2. We think that they were still deserving of
the POW medal.
578.23 National Defense Service Medal.
578.22 Prisoner of War Medal.
(a) Criteria. The POW Medal is authorized by Public Law 99–145, 10 U.S.C.
1128, November 8, 1985, as amended by 10 U.S.C. 1128, November 29, 1989.
It is authorized for any person who, while serving in any capacity with
the U.S. Armed Forces, was taken prisoner and held captive after April
5, 1917.
(1) The POW Medal is to be issued only to those U.S. military personnel
and other personnel granted creditable U.S. military service, who were
taken prisoner and held captive—
(i) While engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States.
(ii) While engaged in military operations involving conflict with an
opposing foreign force.
(iii) While serving with friendly forces engaged in an armed conflict
against an opposing force in which the United States is not a
belligerent party.
(iv) By foreign armed forces that are hostile to the United States,
under circumstances which the Secretary concerned finds to have been
comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive
by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict.

(2) U.S. and foreign civilians who have been credited
with U.S. military service which encompasses the period of captivity are
also eligible for the medal. The Secretary of Defense authorized on
January 27, 1990, the POW Medal for the Philippine Commonwealth Army and
Recognized Guerrilla Unit Veterans who were held captive between
December 7, 1941, and September 26, 1945. DD Form 2510–1 (Prisoner of
War Medal Application/Information-Philippine Commonwealth Army and
Recognized Guerrilla Veterans) was developed as the application for
Filipino Veterans who fit this category.

(3) For purposes of this medal, past armed
conflicts are defined as World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam
Conflict, Grenada, Panama, Persian Gulf War, and Somalia. Hostages of
terrorists and persons detained by governments with which the United
States is not engaged actively in armed conflict are not eligible for
the medal.

(4) Any person convicted of misconduct or a
criminal charge by a U.S. military tribunal, or who receives a less than
honorable discharge based upon actions while a prisoner of war, or whose
conduct was not in accord with the Code of Conduct, and whose actions
are documented by U.S. military records is ineligible for the medal. The
Secretary of the Army is the authority for deciding eligibility in such
cases.

(5) No more than one POW Medal will be awarded. For
subsequent award of the medal, service stars will be awarded and worn on
the suspension and service ribbon of the medal. A period of captivity
terminates on return to U.S. military control. Escapees who do not
return to U.S. military control and are recaptured by an enemy do not
begin a new period of captivity for subsequent award of the POW Medal.
(Service stars are described in 578.61.)

(6) The POW Medal may be awarded posthumously.

(7) The primary next of kin of eligible prisoners
of war who die in captivity may be issued the POW Medal regardless of
the length of stay in captivity.

(8) Personnel officially classified as Missing in
Action (MIA) are not eligible for award of the POW Medal. The POW Medal
will only be awarded when the individual's prisoner of war status has
been officially confirmed and recognized as such by the DA. Likewise,
the return of remains, in and of itself, does not constitute evidence of
confirmed prisoner of war status.

(b) Award of the POW Medal to active military
personnel, veterans, retirees and their next of kin—(1) Active Military
Personnel. Award of the POW Medal to military personnel in an active war
will be processed by the Commander, USA HRC (see 578.3 (c)), after
coordination with the Repatriation and Family Affairs Division.

(2) Veterans, retirees and their next of kin. All
requests for the POW Medal will be initiated by eligible former POWs, or
their next of kin, using a personal letter or DD Form 2510 (Prisoner of
War Medal Application/ Information). Applications should be forwarded to
the NPRC (see 578.16(a)(3) for address).
(c) Description. A purple heart within a Gold border, 13/8 inches wide,
containing a profile of General George Washington. Above the heart
appears a shield of the Washington Coat of Arms (a White shield with two
Red bars and three Red stars in chief) between sprays of Green leaves.
The reverse consists of a raised Bronze heart with the words “FOR
MILITARY MERIT” below the coat of arms and leaves. The ribbon is 13/8
inches wide and consists of the following stripes: 1/8 inch White 67101;
11/8 inches Purple 67115; and 1/8 inch White 67101.

Dshmia e Kores s Veriut me bomba Atomike dhe luft kimike
Aftsit. Plus, historia e fluturimeve pr t mbshtetur
ushtart tan, e n POW Koreja e Veriut. North Koreas Atomic
Bomb may be real and it may have been started by the
research from the Japanese Government in World War 2.